Species Promecoderus concolor Germar, 1848

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• Promecoderus concolor Germar, E.F. 1848. Beiträge zur Insektenfauna von Adelaide. Linnaea Entomologica 3: 153-247 [168].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMB, Adelaide, SA.
• Promecoderus suturalis Laporte, F.L. [de Castelnau] 1867. Notes on Australian Coleoptera. Melbourne : Royal Society of Victoria 139 pp. [separates available prior to republication in Trans. R. Soc. Vict. 8: 30–38 (1867), 95–225 (1868)] [84].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCG 6 specimens, Adelaide, SA.
• Promecoderus howittii Laporte, F.L. [de Castelnau] 1867. Notes on Australian Coleoptera. Melbourne : Royal Society of Victoria 139 pp. [separates available prior to republication in Trans. R. Soc. Vict. 8: 30–38 (1867), 95–225 (1868)] [85].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCG 6 specimens, Melbourne, VIC.
• Promecoderus lucidus Putzeys, J. 1868. Les Broscides. Entomologische Zeitschrift 29: 305-379 [339].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) RIB, Australia.
• Promecoderus anthracinus Macleay, W.J. 1873. Miscellanea entomologica. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 319-370 [334].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 2 specimens, lower Murrumbidgee River, NSW.
• Promecoderus concolor namoyensis Sloane, T.G. 1892. Studies in Australian Entomology. No. V Notes on the subfamily Broscini (Carabidae), with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 7: 45-64 [48].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC (Sloane coll.) 1 specimen located, Narrabri and Gunnedah, NSW.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Sloane, T.G. 1892. Studies in Australian Entomology. No. V Notes on the subfamily Broscini (Carabidae), with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 7: 45-64 [47]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tanami (TAN), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, low open woodland, open scrub, predator, terrestrial.

General References

Moore, B.P. 1964. Australian larval Carabidae of the subfamilies Broscinae, Psydrinae and Pseudomorphinae (Coleoptera). Pacific Insects 6: 242-246 [242]

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